Lott Comments Harden Opposition to Pickering Renomination

Senate Republican leader Trent Lott's recanted remarks that appeared to endorse race separation views of a half-century ago may derail Mississippi jurist Charles Pickering's second chance for the federal appeals court seat, Democrats and liberal groups said Thursday...

--Fox News story, 12/13/02

Har-de-har-har.

(And here's why that's extremely good news.)